Yesterday I spend a couple of hot hours digging in the dirt. The whole camp of over 2000 adults left the conference grounds, dispersed into the surrounding area and served the town of Odder at 600 different ministry sites. It was great seeing cars filled with people leaving the conference to serve the local people with the love of Jesus. It was fun jumping into cars with strangers to go to Danish people's homes not knowing if the driver or the people you were headed out to meet would speak English. My job was to go with a group of people to a woman's home to clear brush, dig out her garden from a mass of overgrowth, trim trees and get her yard in back in order. She is an older single lady who really needed the help and appreciated it very much, she said it was all to much for her to upkeep - we preached the gospel of sweat, kindness and love with our hands.
While we were working I met a great young man named Martin, he is studying theology in Copenhagen. As we worked we talked a bit about the need for churches globally to engage the culture of this new time. Young leaders everywhere are feeling the need for the church to understand the cultures they live in and make the beautiful unchanging Gospel understandable to the people of this generation.
I mentioned some good books to Martin, so Martin, here are the names of those books.
Beautiful people, beautiful country and beautiful service. Hey, Chuckk, what is the email address to an address set up by "Jonathan" to email the students? Thanks, Sandi